News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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Latest events. . .
Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2022, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
ISA World Congress of Sociology: Session on Transnational Queer Politics and Human Rights, Melbourne – call for papers
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
Call for Papers: Abolition Feminism: Breaking Free from The Master’s Tools Workshop, online from Read and Resist
2022
August
Critical Legal Conference 2022
Dates: 31 August –2 September 2022
Venue: Tromsø, Norway
Theme: Liminalities
See website for details.
September
2022 International Empirical Legal Studies Conference
Dates: 1–2 September 2022
Venue: Netherlands Academy for Empirical Legal Studies, Amsterdam
See website for details.
We Move – Race Equality & Migrants Rights Summit
Dates: 2–4 September 2022
Venue: University of Leeds
This event is organised by the Runnymeded Trust, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Liberty, the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity and DLA Piper. See website for details.
Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2022
Dates: 6–9 September 2022
Venue: King's College London
See website for details.
Carceral Policy, Policing and Race Conference
Dates: 7–9 September 2022
Venue: SOAS University of London
See website and announcement for details.
Crime, Justice and the Human Condition: Beyond the cris(es) – reframing and reimagining justice
Dates: 13–14 September 2022
Venue: Keble College, University of Oxford
See website for details.
The 5th Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum
Date: 15 September 2022 (tbc with speakers)
Venue: Nottingam Trent University
Proposals are invited for papers on any aspect of the law and/or practice of partnerships, LLPs or other alternative forms of business organisations, in the UK or overseas. Please see the attached document for further information.
Perspectives for Post-Covid 19 Recovery and Sustainable Sevelopment
Date: 15 September 2022
Venue: University of Roehampton, London, online and in-person
This is a free SLS Small Projects and Events Fund event. See website for details.
Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Conference
Date: 15 September 2022
Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Nottingham (in-person)
Registration now open. See website for details or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have any queries.
Abolition Feminism: Breaking Free from The Master’s Tools Workshop: call for papers
Dates: 15–16 September 2022
Venue: online Read and Resist workshop
See website for details. Closing date: 18 July 2022. This is an SLSA-sponsored seminar under our Seminar Competition scheme.
Constitutional Statutes: Twenty Years On: call for papers extended
Date: 16 September 2022
Venue: Staffordshire University
See announcement and website for details. Extended closing date: 31 July 2022.
How can the Humanities and Social Sciences contribute to the Peace Agenda?
Date: 21 September 2022
Venue: online Palgrave Macmillan Lecture
Speaker: Professor Steven Ratuva, Director of the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand
See website for details.
SAFI Conference 2022: 'Responsibility'
Dates: 29 September–1 October 2022
Venue: Verona, Italy
Keynote speakers: Judith Butler, Marina Calloni, Adriana Cavarero and Erzsébet Rózsa
See website for details. Provisional programme now available.
October
Cryptocurrencies, Smart Contracts, and Alternative Payments: Regulating the “Wild West"
Dates: 13–14 October 2022
Venue: in person at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
See announcement for details.
International Conference on Law and Art in the 19th Century: Power in images: call for papers
Dates: 19–21 October 2022
Venue: Verona, Italy
See website for details. Closing date for submission of proposals: 31 July 2022.
Arbitration in Britain and its Empire: Developments and Divergences
Date: 22 October 2022
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Organisers: Francis Boorman (IALS), Christian Burset (Notre Dame) and Catharine MacMillan (King’s College London).
See website for details.
November
SAFESOC Death in Prisons Conference, Oxford
Dates: 2–3 November 2022
Venue: Oxford
See SAFESOC website for details in due course.
Spaces of Conflict, Spaces of Justice: Between Natural Landscapes and Cityscapes – call for papers
Date: 3–4 November 2022
Venue: jointly hosted by Sapienza and McGill Universities at McGill University, Montréal, Canada – call for papers
Please see announcement for details. Closing date: 31 July 2022.
JUSTICE Annual Human Rights Conference
Date: 4 November 2022
Venue: Allen and Overy LLP, London
Further information will be available on the JUSTICE website in due course.
Gender Based Violence Conference: Reflections on the World Envisaged In 'After Dark' by Jayne Cowie: call for papers
Date: 15 November 2022
Venue: online from Northumbria University's Family Justice Research Interest Group
See announcement for details. Closing date: 9 September 2022.
The Neglected Decade: Legal Issues of the 1950s
Date: 23 November 2022
Venue: online hosted by Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Organised by Professors Rosemary Auchmuty and Fiona Cownie. See announcement for full details.
December
Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 9–10 December 2022
Venue: Vietnam National University, Hanoi
See website for details.
2023
January
Joint International Research Project in the Field of Gender Equality: Haifa, Israel, and Lille, France – call for papers
Dates: 9 January 2023 and 3–6 July 2023
Venue: Unviersity of Haifa, Israel, and Lille University, France
See announcement for details. Closing dates: 15 October 2022 (Haifa) and 15 February 2023 (Lille).
May
International Conference of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG)
Dates: 4–6 May 2023
Venue: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
See announcement for details. Call closes: 29 August 2022.
23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2023: call for papers
Dates: 24–27 May 2023
Venue: hosted online by Pontificia Università Antonianum, Roma, Italy
Theme: Global Semiotics and Everyday Legal Claims – Intercultural Use of Law, Interreligious Dialogue and Translation Ethics
Please note that this event was originally scheduled to take place in May 2021. See announcement for full details. Closing date: 6 January 2023.
June
Equality, Law and Social Justice Residence: call for participants
Dates: 19 June–7 July 2023
Venue: King's College London
Call for scholars to participate in a sustained three-week interdisciplinary and international conversation on equality, law and social justice to be held in London.This is the first in an annual series of research-intensive thematic residences. See website for details. Closing date for applications: 30 September 2022.
ISA World Congress of Sociology: Session on Transnational Queer Politics and Human Rights, Melbourne – call for papers
Dates: 25 June–1 July 2023
Venue: Melbourne, Australia
See website for details. Closing date: 30 September 2022
July